After last weeks announcement from the US Army and their plans to replace around 120,000 humans with soldiers on the battlefield, The Verge ask what decisions should be granted to robots, should they have the decision to kill?

Only weeks after the successful wake from the first lunar night on the moon, the first Chinese moon rover, Yutu, experiences technical malfunctions which appears to involve the robots sleep/power down process.

Another day, another Google acquisition. This time it's London based firm DeepMind who specialise in machine learning and systems neuroscience with their first commercial applications to be simulations, e-commerce and games.

Millions of landmines are still active around the world, with teams of dedicated humans attempting to clear the threat. Obviously this is a dangerous and time-consuming task, and that's why a team of researchers at University of Coimbra are attempting to automate this task through the use of a robotic minesweeper.